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  • Retreat from Victory

    The Battle of Malvern Hill and the End of the Seven Days, July 1, 1862

    Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862, marked the climax of the Seven Days’ Battles around Richmond, Virginia. For the first time since the Civil War began, the full might of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Union Army of the Potomac and Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia met on one field. The world watched and wondered as this high-stakes combat played out on the doorstep of the ... Read more

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  • Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

    The interesting and instructive character of this sensational narrative, which we cull from the traditions of a past generation, must cover the shortcomings of the pen that has labored to present it in an English dress. ... Read more

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  • The Fredericksburg Campaign

    Winter War on the Rappahannock

    The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13,000 Federal soldiers compared to 4,500 Confederates); ruined the career of Ambrose E. Burnside; embarrassed Abraham Lincoln; and distinguished Robert E. Lee as one of the greatest military strategists of his era. Francis Augustín O'Reilly draws upon his ... Read more

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  • Gettysburg

    The Last Invasion

    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    **Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military HistoryAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year**The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier.Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. ... Read more

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  • Landscape Turned Red

    The Battle of Antietam

    "The best account of the Battle of Antietam" from t he award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville ( The New York Times Book Review ).The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red,... ... Read more

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  • Gettysburg

    A Testing of Courage

    This National Bestseller is a "gripping narrative. . . . the best one-volume history of the decisive battle of the Civil War" ( New York Times Book Review ).America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and ... Read more

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  • Brigades of Gettysburg

    The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg

    Learn about the paper brigade and the battle of Gettysburg in this incredible bookIncludes Gettysburg maps, maps of Antietam, artillery at Gettysburg, and moreBased on first-hand accountsAuthor Bradley M. Gottfried painstakingly pieced together each brigade’s experience at the Battle of Gettysburg. This brutal battle lasted for days and left soldiers with boredom and dread of what was to come when ... Read more

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  • The Confederacy's Last Hurrah

    Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville

    by Wiley Sword ...
    The rise of Civil War general John Bell Hood, his command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and the decisions that led to its downfall.Though he barely escaped expulsion from West Point, John Bell Hood quickly rose through the ranks of the Confederate army. With bold leadership in the battles of Gaines' Mill and Antietam, Hood won favor with Confederate president Jefferson Davis. But his ... Read more

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  • Chancellorsville

    A new look at the Civil War battle that led to Stonewall Jackson's death: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and "tour de force in military history" ( Library Journal).From the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg, this is the definitive account of the Chancellorsville campaign, from the moment "Fighting Joe" Hooker took command of the Army of the Potomac to the Union's ... Read more

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  • To the Gates of Richmond

    The Peninsula Campaign

    This account of McClellan's 1862 campaign is "a wonderful book" (Ken Burns) and "military history at its best" ( The New York Times Book Review).From "the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today," To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict's bloodiest campaigns ( Chicago Tribune). Of the 250,000 men who fought in it, only a fraction had ever been in ... Read more

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  • The Maps of Gettysburg

    An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3–July 13, 1863

    A comprehensive collection of Civil War maps and battle plans that brought Union and Confederate forces to the largest battle ever fought on American soil.Thousands of books and articles have been written about Gettysburg—but the military operation itself remains one of the most complex and difficult to understand. Here, Bradley M. Gottfried gives readers a unique and thorough study of the ... Read more

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  • Shiloh

    The Battle That Changed the Civil War

    The battle of Shiloh, fought in April 1862 in the wilderness of south central Tennessee, marked a savage turning point in the Civil War.In this masterful book, Larry Daniel re-creates the drama and the horror of the battle and discusses in authoritative detail the political and military policies that led to Shiloh, the personalities of those who formulated and executed the battle plans, the ... Read more

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